CURRENTS & CURRENCIES

An Exploration of Cultural Sea Changes From Mindsailing

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Whether it's microbes in the dirt or fresh air—or both—researchers do know this: Gardening is strong medicine.

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The World's Smartest Office Building Knows How You Like Your Coffee

It knows where you live. It knows what car you drive. It knows who you’re meeting with today and how much sugar you take in your coffee. (At least it will, after the next software update.) This is the Edge, and it’s quite possibly the smartest office space ever constructed.

Longread about the two faces of the future of work. Smart systems for a convenient worklife balance or all-seing and surpressive eyes for efficient and productive work. Choose wisely.

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Expect Holographic Ham as Part of the Future of Retail

Expo 2015 proved an eye-opening event, particularly a vision of what the supermarket of the future might look like

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Hundreds of people gathered in New York last night in the last of a series of global gatherings, from Australia to India to South Africa to Brazil to the UK, to Light The Way to a better future, and to achieving the Global Goals: end inequality, poverty and climate change. 

In a moving finale, people showed their lights towards the United Nations Headquarters where world leaders meet today to adopt the Global Goals.

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THE LA PHIL’S VAN BEETHOVEN IS MUSIC TO OUR EYES

More here: http://design-milk.com/la-phils-van-beethoven-music-eyes/

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18 Fast Food Chains Earn an ‘F’ On Their Use of Antibiotics

Here’s why chains need to do more to make the grade.

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As a global community, we all want to end poverty. Mia Birdsong suggests a great place to start: Let's honor the skills, drive and initiative that poor people bring to the struggle every day. She asks us to look again at people in poverty: They may be broke — but they're not broken.

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Zogby Analytics recently completed a survey of 18-26 year olds in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The online poll was conducted July 29-August 3 and involved 1,005 Americans, 251 British, and 203 Australians. The results paint a portrait of a shared global worldview in terms of values [...]

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What is the link between Literacy and Sustainable Societies? 

Learn more at: http://bit.ly/1drWcyw 

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Japan Is Pushing Solar Energy By Turning Their Abandoned Golf Courses Into Solar Power Plants Jan Omega, inquisitr.com

Since 2010, it seems there’s been a boom in solar energy. Not only is it being considered as a viable energy option that may replace both coal and nuclear energy, but it is being innovated to improve people’s lives. An example of the former can be…

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Turning cow poo into power is profitable for US farm Mira Oberman, AFP, businessinsider.com

Plymouth (United States) (AFP) - For most farms, manure is a pungent problem. At Homestead Dairy, it smells like money.

The family-run American farm invested in a biogas recovery system which transforms cow poo and other waste into…

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Sally Pipes, forbes.com

Only three in ten enrollees in Obamacare’s exchanges report being satisfied with their health coverage, according to a new poll from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.

Among the primary reasons for these poor numbers? Many exchange polici…

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What it will take for social finance to take off BY KAREN PEETZ, fortune.com

The private sector and investors hold the answer to closing the investment gap in developing countries.

World leaders, finance ministers, business leaders and investors gathered this week in Ethiopia for the United Nation’s International Financi…

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Corey Kohn, unreasonable.is

What’s all the fuss about B Corps? What are they? Why do they matter, and why is there a great future in B Corps?B Lab, the nonprofit that provides the certification to businesses, describes B Corps like this:B Corp is to business what F…

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Are plants intelligent? New book says yes Jeremy Hance, theguardian.com

Plants are intelligent. Plants deserve rights. Plants are like the Internet – or more accurately the Internet is like plants. To most of us these statements may sound, at best, insupportable or, at worst, crazy. But a new book, Brilliant Green: th…

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The 5 rules of collaborative innovation Mark Esposito and Terence Tse, weforum.org

We have cause for celebration in Europe as the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing and cheaper lending strategies have brought some growth back to the Eurozone. But questions remain on the long-term viability of the economy. What would hap…

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Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes youtube.com